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  "path": "/t/codex-app-forcing-me-to-pay-for-and-use-an-api-key-for-imagegen/1374122#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-13T05:16:30.000Z",
  "site": "https://community.openai.com",
  "textContent": "Lets try this again.\n\nAbout a week ago, I got a ChatGPT plus subscription to use the codex app. Everything was working great and I had started an agent that same day to use the imagegen skill to make some images for me, and it worked flawlessly. Fast forward to today, I try to create some images again, and the agent keeps telling me I need to generate an API key to use it , which I did, and of course it failed because I dont have a balance for API usage.\n\nIm wondering what the point of the codex app and a plus subscription is if I cannot even use it without paying more for API usage. Also, why did it work fine the first time I tried it?",
  "title": "Codex app forcing me to pay for and use an api key for imagegen"
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